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The 17^th Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators call 2026 “Environmental Systems Research” can fund up to three group leader positions, with up to € 1.8 million per research group over a period of six to eight years. The Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators (VRG) programme is designed to attract outstanding early-career researchers from abroad to Vienna who seek to advance their research career by establishing an independent research group. 

The first step @ BOKU: the researchers potentially interested to host a VRG leader should contact us before the 10th of Nov. 2025. More info here.

CL6: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Ressources, Agriculture and Environment

Call 02 - single stage (2026) (HORIZON-CL6-2026-02)  17 topics

For support at proposal preparation, contact Lada Fialova lada.fialova(at)boku.ac.at 

The Austrian Climate Research Programme (ACRP) provides a conceptual and institutional basis for supporting climate research in Austria. The ACRP focuses on research on climate change and climate actions, adaptation, mitigation and their mutual interrelation.

The 18th Call comprises the following three thematic areas:

• Understanding the climate system and consequences of climate change
• Specific support for Austria’s policymakers
• Transformative change

Important notes:

• In contrast to previous calls for proposals, the maximum funding per project this year is only €200,000!
• No own contribution is required.
• Contrary to the information in the instrument guideline, third-party costs in ACRP projects may not exceed 30% of the total estimated costs.
• The financial resources for international organisations (funding for international Partners and cost for international subcontractors) must not exceed 20% of the project funding in total.
• Applicants and all project partners are expected to address climate-friendly solutions regarding operational aspects, such as travel, participation in meetings, use of consumables, in their submission.

As this year's deadline is quite close to the Easter holidays and we are again expecting a large number of submissions, please inform us as soon as possible if you intend to apply, so that we can estimate the workload. To ensure timely processing and approval under these conditions, please submit the ePM by 23 March 2026.

CL5: Climate, Energy and Mobility: two calls in the Destination 1 “Climate sciences and responses”. Check it out!

• HORIZON-CL5-2026-07 5 topics
• HORIZON-CL5-2026-08-Two-Stage 1 topic

For support at proposal preparation, contact Lada Fialova lada.fialova(at)boku.ac.at 

This call is directed at researchers in Vienna who seek to conduct a cutting-edge interdisciplinary research project between ICT and social sciences / humanities (SSH) that address digital technologies & practices from a human-centered and societal perspective in the field of Digital Humanism.

This is a 2-stage call, with the deadline for the submission od short proposal on April 15th 2026.

More info to be found here.

CL6: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Ressources, Agriculture and Environment

Call 03 - single stage (2026) (HORIZON-CL6-2026-03) 10 topics

For support at proposal preparation, contact Lada Fialova lada.fialova(at)boku.ac.at 

CL6: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Ressources, Agriculture and Environment

AI in Science (HORIZON-RAISE-2026-01) 2 topics

For support at proposal preparation, contact Lada Fialova lada.fialova(at)boku.ac.at 

Innovative Health Initiative (IHI)

Horizon Europe partnership

The IHI has open a bottom-up call (= open for any research idea fitting into one of the following strategic areas):

• Topic 1 (SO1): Boosting innovation for a better understanding of the determinants of health
• Topic 2 (SO2): Boosting innovation through better integration of fragmented health R&I efforts
• Topic 3 (SO3): Boosting innovation for people-centred integrated healthcare solutions
• Topic 4 (SO4): Boosting innovation through exploitation of digitalisation and data exchange in healthcare
• Topic 5 (SO5): Boosting innovation for better assessment of the added value of innovative integrated healthcare solutions

45% of the project costs must be covered by industrial partners! More information on the Call including application documents can be found HERE

The Life Sciences 2026 Call “Targeted Prevention” opened for submissions on 3^rd March 2026. This call is open to innovative and impactful projects that have the potential to promote disease prevention and/or increase the number of healthy life years in a defined population.

This is a 2-stage call, with submission of short proposal (May 5th) and full proposal (October 6th). 

An online info session will take place on March 17th. More info here.

ACHTUNG: Strategisches Projekt
Bitte FoS-PS ehestmöglich über eine geplante Einreichung informieren, da BOKU interne Freigabe via Rektoratsbeschluss vor Einreichung erforderlich! Anzustrebende Rektoratssitzung: 28.04.2026

Sitzung der CDG-Gremien: 19./20.03.2026

Antragstellung für neue CD-Labors über das neue ePortal der CDG!

The Social Sciences Call 2026 „Resilience & Crises” opened for submissions on January 15, 2026. This call invites researchers led by by a social scientists to submit proposals for exploratory, interdisciplinary research projects that advance the conceptualization of resilience in relation to selected crises—primarily with regard to their societal dimensions.

Deadline for the submission of the first funding phase is 17.06.2026

Call Info online session will take place on April 24^th 2026 (10:00 - 12:00). Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88940626855?pwd=S8Wj3paDRxu6z7KYilBAb7uo34pJxY.1

More info to be found here.

Der Klimawandel stellt Österreichs natürliche Lebensgrundlagen zunehmend unter Druck. Häufigere Hitzeperioden, veränderte Niederschlagsmuster sowie Extremereignisse wie Hochwasser, Muren oder langanhaltende Trockenphasen wirken sich massiv auf Wasserhaushalt, Böden, Biodiversität und Siedlungsräume aus. Nature-based Solutions bieten einen vielversprechenden Ansatz, um diesen Herausforderungen zu begegnen.
Diese Challenge ist im Kontext der nationalen Umsetzung der EU-Missionen verankert und trägt gezielt dazu bei, die missionsspezifischen Ziele zu adressieren.

In der Challenge Nature-based Solutions werden bahnbrechende Innovationen gesucht, die Funktionsprinzipien aus der Natur für technische, industrielle oder gesellschaftliche Anwendungen übernehmen und dabei zeigen, wie wir „mit“ statt „gegen“ die Natur arbeiten können.

Eingereicht werden sollen Lösungen, die messbar zur Regeneration von Böden, zum Schutz von Wasser und zur Anpassung an die Auswirkung des Klimawandels beitragen.

Ein Webinar dazu findet am 07.04.2026 um 11:00 Uhr statt, hier anmelden!

ACHTUNG: Strategisches Projekt
Bitte FoS-PS ehestmöglich über eine geplante Einreichung informieren, da BOKU interne Freigabe via Rektoratsbeschluss vor Einreichung erforderlich! Anzustrebende Rektoratssitzung: 04.08.2026

Sitzung der CDG-Gremien: 19./20.03.2026

Antragstellung für neue CD-Labors über das neue ePortal der CDG!

You are an established researcher and have a ground-breaking research idea! Then, the ERC Advanced Grant is for you.

Contact us in advance to get support!

More Info # ERC

28.05.2026

Ziel der COMET-Projekte ist die Durchführung von hochqualitativer Forschung in der Zusammenarbeit Wissenschaft-Wirtschaft mit mittelfristiger Perspektive und klar abgegrenzter Themenstellung mit künftigem Entwicklungspotenzial.

ACHTUNG: Strategisches Projekt
Bitte FoS-PS ehestmöglich über eine geplante Einreichung informieren, da BOKU interne Freigabe via Rektoratsbeschluss vor Einreichung erforderlich! Anzustrebende Rektoratssitzung: 22.09.2026

Die Sitzung des Bewertungsgremiums findet Anfang Juni 2027 statt. Die Entscheidung wird im Juni 2027 vorliegen.

ACHTUNG: Strategisches Projekt

Bitte FoS-PS ehestmöglich über eine geplante Einreichung informieren, da BOKU interne Freigabe via Rektoratsbeschluss vor Einreichung erforderlich! 

Anzustrebende Rektoratssitzung: 20.10.2026

Sitzung der CDG-Gremien: 19./20.03.2026

Antragstellung für neue CD-Labors über das neue ePortal der CDG!